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Rodrigo Werle, associate professor of plant and agroecosystem sciences, plucks a weed from a research field while scouting at Lancaster Agricultural Research Station.

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Waterhemp infests a conventionally managed plot of corn in a research field at Lancaster Agricultural Research Station. Recently sprayed with an herbicide, the weed has curled but won’t be killed.

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Werle talks with Daniel Smith, far right, southwest regional outreach specialist for the Nutrient and Pest Management Program in UW–Madison Extension, at a research field investigating new weed management practices for herbicide-resistant waterhemp at Lancaster Agricultural Research Station. At left is corn that is struggling under conventional herbicide management and still infested with weeds. At right is a successful stand of corn that was planted into a cover crop.

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Martina Mancheno Valarezo, right, a graduate student in the Cangiano Lab, gives some comforting head touches to a “beef-on-dairy” calf during routine health checks of animals enrolled in a nutritional and immunology study at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station beef unit.

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Lautaro Rostoll-Cangiano, an assistant professor of animal and dairy sciences, and Martina Mancheno, graduate student in the Cangiano Lab, obtain colon tissue samples from a calf.

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Eve Lazarski, an undergraduate student studying biology, sprays corn plants with a combination of beneficial bacteria in a field trial at Hancock Agricultural Research Station.

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Mucilage is seen on the aerial roots of one of the hybrid corn plants.

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Werle talks about herbicide resistance with farmers and other attendees at the Agronomy and Soils Field Day at Arlington Agricultural Research Station.

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Chris Barncard University of Wisconsin

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist specializing in the most unwelcome guests that pop up in Wisconsin farm fields.